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THE UNITY OF THE 

SCIENCES 

Spiritual and Political 



BEING A TREATISE BY 

JULIA GOLDZIER, BAYONNE, N. J., ON THE 

RELATIONSHIP OF RELIGION 

AND ECONOMICS 




DONE INTO A PRINTED 

BOOK AT THE ROYCROFT SHOP 

WHICH IS IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK STATE 



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THE UNITY OF THE 

SCIENCES 

Spiritual and Political 



BEING A TREATISE BY 

JULIA GOLDZIER, BAYONNE, N. J., ON THE 

RELATIONSHIP OF RELIGION 

AND ECONOMICS 




DONE INTO A PRINTED 

BOOK AT THE ROYCROFT SHOP 

WHICH IS IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK STATE 






' op: rigbf, I'M ; 
U; Julia Goldzier 



APR 29 1914 






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INTRODUCTION 




"Great social reforms," says Mazzini," always have been and always will be 
the result of great religious movements." — Leo Tolstoy, in "A Great Iniquity." 

JOME wise people, acquainted with the history of religions, 
involving heinous wars and atrocious oppressions, resent 
and antagonize the very idea of joining politics with 
religion. Their attitude is justifiable and justified as 
regards a State foisting a man-made creed upon a people, 
or a church foisting some political dogma — necessarily 
full of graft, discrimination, favoritism, hypocrisy and deception — 
upon its adherents. 

But in a Cult, where study and investigation are the object, 
and practical application is not considered as an immediate issue, 
it is permissible — it is necessary — to ignore prejudice and to place 
these two seemingly antagonistic subjects together for estimation 
and comparison. Then, if investigation reveals that Political Science 
and Religious Science are part and parcel of the same great Law of 
Life and Being ; if it is found that they have their commencement 
and course in the all-embracing Science, it is the duty of the dis- 
coverer to proclaim his great discovery, even while making further 
studies and investigations to find the " Way " to harmonize and 
bring into unity these two hitherto opposing subjects without 
allowing either to infringe upon the other's domain. 

Religious creeds and political dogmas are man-made ; but the 
religious impulse which originally produced the creed, and the 
sense of justice which was the cause for the creation of political 
parties, are implanted in the human heart and mind by the creating 
power of the universe. Creeds and parties are the means by which 
humanity protests against instituted wrongs — wrongs which are 
wrongs only because they are institutions which have outlived 
their usefulness. They (creeds and parties) are the means to abolish 
the outgrown and establish the ever-developing, ever-receding 
ideal. Dogmas, political and religious, are justifiable as long as 
they express the average ideals ; when the average mind has out- 
grown these ideals, they must be replaced by higher and better ones, 
else degeneration of the human mind sets in, and death follows. 
Nations and. religions come ; and these institutions go ; but the 
religious impulse and the sense of justice remain to push the human 



race on and on toward the better, the finer, the clearer manifestation 
of the growing ideal, by another hair's breadth. 

If any science does violence to the religious training of a man, 
that man's science or his training, or both, needs correction. 

Political Science is the exposition of the eternal, indestructible 
Law of Justice manifested in the " Social Compact " for mutual 
benefit commonly called "Government " ; it contains a moral principle 
of eternal and indestructible quality, and therefore belongs to the 
Spiritual Science. But not for that reason may it be wrenched 
away from the politics of the practical every-day life ; on the con- 
trary, for that reason it proves how well, how closely, how fittingly, 
practical politics belongs to our practical religion. 

For, when practical politics is governed by Political Science — 
or the eternal Principle of Government otherwise known by the 
wise as the " Social Compact " for mutual benefit — then can the 
injunction of our hearts be joyfully fulfilled to " pray without 
ceasing." 

Political Science, or the Principle of Government, includes the 
proper and just distribution of wealth. Because our practises are so 
contrary to the Principle, we see this awful cause of every sin and 
sickness — poverty, that no amount of charity and philanthropy will 
mitigate — and a wise provision, too, it is, that so it is, else would 
Justice, the Law of God, be lost sight of, and a mean, insufficient, 
inefficient, self-inflating generosity take its place. But because, 
with the increased facility to create wealth, that wealth is becoming 
more and more concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great 
masses are left without the bare necessities, are overworked and 
underfed, man in his extremity must turn to God, Principle, Justice, 
for relief and sustenance. 

The God law of the distribution of wealth will be recognized 
in our practical politics ; then poverty and all its attendant evils of 
sin, sickness and premature death will be abolished forevermore. 

The Scientific Statement of Political Economy is : 

Wealth made by Labor on Land helped by Capital is 
divided into three parts : 

One part goes to Land as Rent. 

The second part goes to Capital as Interest. 

The third part Labor keeps as Wages. 

If Wages are taken to meet Municipal Expenses, the 
Laborer perishes or lives on charity. 

If Interest is taken, Capital perishes ; and also the 
capitalist as such, for he swells the ranks of Labor. 

If rent is taken, the Landlord as such perishes ; but the 
land remains for the laborer and capitalist. 



Therefore, Rent is the part of Wealth destined by the 
divine Mind to pay the public expenses. 

The Scientific Statement of Spirit is : 

There is no matter ; all is Mind. What looks like matter 
is but a finite apprehension of infinite Wisdom, Love and 
Power. 

The Scientific Statement of the Unity is : 

The whole is equal to the sum of all its parts. Science is 
not perfect until it has embraced within itself all the sciences 
into a perfect whole. Science is the seed within itself. 

The student, with a little meditation, will recognize that in 
these three statements we have morality, arithmetic, religion, 
spirituality and political economy — all inextricably joined together, 
not to be separated one from the other without marring the whole, 
yet each standing perfectly alone. 

He who leaves his politics out of his religion is an atheist, even 
if he is too ignorant to know it ; and he who advocates the true 
politics is religious, though he be too busy to give the matter a 
thought. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE 




LESSON I 

ET us in spirit, or imagination, leave this earth and let 
the incorporeal consciousness roam freely in unobstructed 
space. Later we will come back to earth and find it a 
different-looking place ; or better speaking, later we 
will draw the earth up to us as to an exalted plane. 
Jesus said, " If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto 
I float far, far beyond the stars, where there is yet no uni- 
I look around, and see nothing ; yet I am. 
And this is the beginning. I contemplate myself. My con- 
sciousness extends as far as the mind can think. I know that I am 
infinite. 

Thus in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 
Heaven is myself; and the earth, what I know of myself. Jesus 
said, " The kingdom of heaven is within you." Within myself is 
heaven and earth. 



me. 

verse. 




LESSON II 

JHERE is no matter. There is only mind. Mind is God 
and God is all. 

There is but one Mind, one consciousness, one I. Mind 
manifests itself in thinking, in impelling, in acting. The 
result of Mind's thoughts, impulsions and activities is the universe, 
which is mental, there being no matter. When Mind thinks, it can 
only think of itself, there being nothing else to think about. 

The whole universe has three divisions : the Mind, Mind's 
activities, and the result of Mind's activities. The Mind is I. Its 
activities consist in knowing. Its results consist of products. Hence 
the universe is expressed in the three words : 



KNOW 
IT 



For there can be no result without Mind ; and no Mind without 
activity ; and no activity without result. The three are one ; but the 



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student of Mind must learn to analyze each thought, and be able 
quickly to trace it to the creator Mind. 

In the following lessons are some examples which can be mul- 
tiplied unendingly from the infinitesimal to the infinite. 



LESSON III 



I 

KNOW 

IT 



I Mind 

Know - - - Mind's activity 

It Thought resulting from Mind's activity 

I Substance 

Know - - - The force of substance in operation 
j The result of the force in operation on 

the substance 

( LIFE 

I ] TRUTH 

(LOVE 



Know 



It 



The act of growing, developing and mani- 
festing 

The act of demonstrating, reflecting, 
transmuting ; the act of bestowing 
upon, protecting, sustaining, support- 
ing 

Manifestation ; birth ; appearance 
Fact ; Law 

Gifts ; justice ; provision ; sustenance, 
protection 



LESSON IV 

There is no matter. All things visible, audible and sensible are 
ideas, resting or disporting in Mind. There is no material universe ; 
it is mental. Matter is unthinkable and unknowable. 



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Wisdom 

Love 

Power 



Know 



It 



1 

I Being 
- Acting 
( Maintaining and impelling 

Manifested existence 

Good things accomplished 

Sabbath ; things that have ceased 
to grow and are preparing, through 
rest, for renewed action and com- 
binations 



There is no matter. " It " can never be physical, for there is 
nothing physical. 

Mind is creator ; its ideas are creation. 



LESSON V 

I ----- Principle, the seed within itself 

„ The act of demonstrating ; the seed in the 

act of growth ; growing and developing 
It The result ; the fruit 



Know - 



It 



LIFE 

TRUTH 

LOVE 



It is the first Principle of being 



1 

{Develops 
Exists passively 
Intensifies 

Life, such as trees ; animals ; houses ; truths 
Truth, such as mathematics ; ethics, natural 

laws, etc. 
Love, such as loving deeds and words ; and 

comfortable social, civic and governmental 

conditions 



The reflection of the creator proceeds eternally. Hence the 
immediate original of some reflection might still be only a reflection. 



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It is the work of the metaphysician to find out the prime-original 
God ; so we meet with a process as follows : 

I MAN 

KNOW - - CREATES 

IT ENVIRONMENT 



LESSON VI 

jjAN sometimes at the first contemplation appears to be a 
creator. But upon examination we find that Man's reality 
is GOD : and the reality of Man's activities is God's activi- 
ties ; and the apparent results of Man's activities are in 
reality the results of God's activities. 
All is God, and there is none else. 

Evil has no existence, whether of substance or reflection. 
Evil is a lack. 




I Father-Mother God 

Know - - - Commune and create 
It Son 



I - - 

Know 
It - - 



Mind 

Expresses 

Idea 



I _____ Consciousness 
Know - - - Reflects 

It Itself 

Man is not different from God. Man is the image of God in 
the Mind of God. 



I - - 

Know 
It - 



Mind ; it contains all thoughts 
Its activity is all force 
Its product is all creation 

LIFE ; eternally changes in growth and 

development 
TRUTH ; eternally remains unchanged in 

perfect principle 
LOVE ; eternally provides, protects and 

sustains, and must include a perfect 

civic and a perfect Social Compact. 




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LESSON VII 

^IND creates by brooding upon itself. The result of its 
reflections is man, the creation, the image of God. 

Mind thinks only good. Evil is a lack of thought, for 
there is no such thing as an evil thought, for all thought 
belongs to the Divine Mind and must be good. 

i Wisdom 

I God Love 

I Power 

( Thinks 
Know - - Creates ------- Provides 

( Makes 

1 Ideas 

It The Universe Man 

I Image and likeness 

i Wisdom - - Truth - - Law 
God - - - i Love - - - - Love - - - Emotion 

I Power - - - Life - - - Conformity 

The perfect image will reflect Wisdom, Love and Power in 
equal proportions. 

If there is seemingly a lack of any one or two of these qualities, 
the image will be out of proportion, hence it will appear to be evil ; 
but evil is not substance, but a lack of it ; and it is cured by putting 
Substance there. A hole on the sidewalk where people fall and 
break bones is not cured by taking the hole away, but by filling it 
up. Evil is a hole, a vacancy, and must be filled up with God, the 
only substance. 



LESSON VIII 

I God 

Know - - - Creates 

It - - - - - The Universe 

I ----- Mind, Consciousness, Life 

Know - - - Gives, understands, grows 

It - - - - - Creation, thought, manifestation 



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( WISDOM 
I LOVE 

I POWER 

i Knows 
Know - - - - Feels 

( Acts 

i Thought 
It ----- - Creation 

I Reflection 

I ----- Substance 
Know - - - Activity 
It - - - - - Reflection 

LESSON IX 

Masculine 
I ------ Feminine 

Neuter 

Attracts 
Know - — -I Is attracted 

Reflects passively 

Development of Race 
It ----- Development of Family 

Development of Self 

I Mind 

Know - - - Thinks 

It - - - - - Something, everything 

T Omnipresent, all-pervading, all- 

inclusive Mind 
Know - - - All Power, force, activity, labor 
It - - - - - All creation, thought, result 

I I AM THAT I AM 

„ Ye shall know the truth, and 

the truth shall make you free 

j God is all and beside Him there 

is none else. 

I Man 

Know - - - Develops 
It Himself 



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Know 



It 



LESSON X 

Father 

Mother 

Child 

Self-communion, active factor, transmitting life 
Self-communion, passive factor, nurturing life 
Self-communion, active and passive factor, 
festing life. 

Man 

Provision 

Fulfilment 



mani- 



I - - - - - Land - 
Know - - Labor - 
It Wealth 



- Passive Factor- - - Mother 

- Active Factor - - - Father 

- Product Child 



I - - _ . . Creator 

Know - - The act of creating 

It - - - - The thing created 



I Eternal Mind 

Know - - Eternal activity, perpetual motion 

It - - - - Eternal goal, ever attained and ever receding 



Know 



Principle- 



Develops - 



It ----- Universe 



LESSON XI 

LIFE 

TRUTH 

LOVE 

Grows 

Reflects 

Creates 

Man 

Truth 

World 



Man 

Animal 

Plant 



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To look for food and shelter ; 
Work - - - - Seek a mate, help another ; 
To make 



Know - Eat - - Consume, use, enjoy, develop 

elax, recr 
rest ; (the 
Sabbath) 



Relax, recreate, sleep, enjoy, 
Play- - - - -, rest ; (the day of rest is the 



The thing made 
It - J The thing utilized 

The thing enjoyed 



There is neither matter nor mortal thought. There is only 
Mind and unending, illimitable thought. What looks like matter is 
a limited view of the eternal " IT," the creation. And what appears 
to be mortal thinking is but the arbitrary limitation of activity. 
Pull down the barrier of " IT " and there will no longer be the 
appearance of matter. And enlarge the activities, and there will 
be no mortal thinking ; for mortality will be swallowed up in immor- 
tality. 

I i s Truth 

Know --Is------ To demonstrate 

It Is The idea 



I Is - Mind 

Know --Is ----- The act of consciousness 

It ----Is ----- The image and likeness reflected in Mind. 



I - Is not Matter 

Know - - Is not- - - - To be ignorant 
It - - - - Is not- - - - Corporeal 



I----- Is ----- Mind, the actor 
Know --Is ----- The action of Mind 

It ----Is ----- The idea in Mind and has no corporeal 

existence 



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I - - - - - Mind, acts only mentally 

Know - - Mental activity only 

It - - - - An image in Mind and the image of Mind. 

I - - - - - God, includes all substance 

Know - - The meditation of God when brooding upon Himself 

It - - - - The thought that God has about Him, Her and Itself 

Mind's cognition of itself is perfect. The Reflection, the 
image in Mind, is perfect. 



PRIMER ON POLITICAL SCIENCE 



PRIMER ON POLITICAL SCIENCE 



LESSON I 



LAND is the First and Constant NECESSITY 




?NE of the facts hardest for the novice to realize is man's 
utter dependence on land. Because a bachelor man or 
maid, having very few wants, occupies a back hall- 
room on the fifteenth story of an apartment-house, and 
never gets a glimpse of the bare soil, he or she forgets 
that that soil is nevertheless constantly underneath as 
a support and a prop. That the great towering structure has its 
foundation on land — choice and precious — is not considered. That 
the food eaten and the clothes worn are literally dug out of the 
ground is not remembered. 

Books, newspapers and magazines, occupying so very little 
room in a home or office, require immense areas of ground for their 
production ; forests for the wood-pulp, mines for the raw material 
of the machinery, factories for the making of the machines, and 
large suites and apartments for the printing-presses, storage and sale. 
A collar-button, a thimble and a shoe-string require much more 
ground to be produced than is occupied by the articles. Even the 
land over which they pass from the place of their production to the 
place of their ultimate destination must not be left out of the reckon- 
ing. Everything we have and hold is taken from the ground, yet 
never — never leaves it. 

Land is the earth and the fulness thereof before the hand of 
man makes changes in and on it for his own purposes. It includes 
water, plants and animals. 




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LESSON II 

LABOR 

^NOTHER difficulty that the novice encounters in his study 
of Political Economy is the many and various names he 
bestows on work, reserving the word " labor " only for 
such coarse and primitive occupations as are performed by 
the " man with the hoe," hod, shovel, pickax, etc. And yet a laborer 
by any other name works just as hard. 

Engineers, architects, builders, astronomers, orators, writers 
and doctors are laborers, and their occupations are labor. The 
great managers and directors of great enterprises are laborers, and 
their exertions are labor. Inventors, explorers and scientists are 
laborers, and their efforts are labor. It is confusing and unscientific 
to divide work and say some is labor and receives wages ; some other 
is " labor of superintendence " and receives salary ; another brand is 
a profession and receives fees ; and another is commerce and receives 
commissions. 

The scientific economist recognizes that all human effort in the 
business world is LABOR, and the recompense in every case is 
WAGES. To understand Political Science, this point must be well 
learned and well digested. 

LESSON III 

WEALTH 

;F all the confusions of thought caused by the confusion of 
the meaning of names, the very worst is that produced by the 
term " wealth." 

In Political Science, " wealth " can have but one 
significance, which may not be confounded with poetical, figurative 
or allegorical meanings. 

The sentimental lover may rave about his beloved's wealth of 
golden hair ; but as long as that hair grows on the lady's head and 
her only occupation is her own housekeeping, that hair is not wealth, 
but a point of beauty in the lady. The hair is the lady, and a lady 
is not wealth. 

If that hair grows on the lady's head and she goes to business 
as stenographer, saleslady or telephone-girl, that hair is scientifically 
recognized by the glorified name of " labor," as the hand of the 
operator of a typewriter is labor. 

But if the hair did not grow on her head ; if the lady bought the 
hair at an emporium, it is wealth; and in that case the lover would 
not refer to it except under a misapprehension, for the wealth of 




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golden locks recognized in Political Science would not at all fit the 
poetical sense. 

Political Science will never interfere with the lover and his 
poetry ; but neither may the lover permit his poetry to play the part 
of the serpent in Paradise, to deceive the student and bring confusion 
and disaster to his politically scientific conclusions. 

Also, when speaking figuratively of a man's wealth being his 
brains, we can not allow this figure of speech to be accepted as a 
scientific statement. If a man gets his income by his brains, those 
brains are classed as labor, and not as wealth. 

In Political Science, wealth has a specific meaning, which must 
be adhered to if light is to overrule the darkness, and system is to 
be brought out of confusion and chaos. 

Wealth is an object outside of man, that is made by man, on 
and from the land. It is a piece of the earth segregated from the 
earth and modified by man. 

Hence neither man nor land can be included in the term "wealth." 

The fact that men bought and sold Negroes did not make them 
wealth, though these human beings were wrongfully used as wealth. 

The fact that men buy and sell land does not make it wealth, 
though it is being wrongfully treated as such. 

Wealth is a piece of matter extracted from the earth 
and made useful by the efforts of labor. 

If a man is rich because he owns large tracts of land, he is not 
a " wealthy " man nor a capitalist, but a landowner. 

If he is rich because he has a large bank-account, he is neither 
" wealthy " nor " moneyed " ; but he has a standing credit on the 
services of the community, and he may get wealth or services with- 
out the use of money at all by simply relinquishing some of his 
credit in the shape of a check. He is not " wealthy," according to 
Political Science, until he cancels some credit and takes in exchange 
some object. 

If he is a stock-owner, the directors of the company backed by 
the Government insure to him a part of the credit for the wealth 
that the laborers with the aid of the tool called Capital are making, 
or the services they are performing. He is not " wealthy," but 
holds the certificates of services rendered by labor and capital. 

This point will become clearer with the knowledge of the mean- 
ing of other terms. For the present let it be sufficient to know 
and remember that " wealth " is nothing more nor less nor different 
from what labor takes from the land and fashions into shape for the 
use of man. 




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LESSON IV 
CAPITAL 

jjFTER being able to distinguish between wealth and labor, 
wealth and land, and labor and land, another confused 
problem arises for disentanglement. 

This problem is the difference between the wealth that 
is capital and the wealth that is for consumption. 

CONSUMPTION, by the way, means private use. 

Every living creature, whether plant or animal, needs land for 
its existence, and fish are not exempt from that law. 

Every creature, too, must exert itself to maintain its existence. 

So far, man does not differ from the other living things. 

The first requisite of life is land and labor ; and the differences 
between man and animals are those of quantity and not of kind. 
All plants and animals, including man, exert themselves for their 
next meal and for the safety of their young. But man requires 
much more than the other creatures, and the tools wherewith to 
get his meals and protect his young have grown and are continuing 
to grow more and more complex and numerous as the cycles of ages 
pass since the first biped picked up a stone to crack a nut and broke 
a limb from a tree to fence off an enemy. 

Wealth, as we studied in a previous lesson, is a piece of matter 
picked up from land and fashioned to suit man's needs. 

Out of the wealth that man has made, he sets a certain portion 
aside for the exclusive purpose of helping him in his business. Such 
wealth is capital. 

The house a man lives in is wealth in consumption ; the house 
he rents out to increase his income is wealth used to make more 
wealth, and is therefore capital. There is a great difference between 
the wealth for consumption and the wealth that is capital. 

The wealth that is capital is for business purposes only. If a 
man lives in a part of the house that he is renting out, he is using 
only part of his wealth as capital. The other part he is consuming. 
Capital is that part of wealth by the help of which man makes more 
wealth. 

A private yacht is wealth in consumption ; a ferryboat or ocean 
steamer is wealth that is capital. 

Capital is the tool that man makes and uses to help him make 
wealth. 




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LESSON V 
MONEY 

j(HE word " money " must not be confounded with capital 
or with wealth in consumption. 

Money is no different from a ticket that admits you 
to your seat in a theater. The ticket is not the seat nor 
is it a dramatic performance ; the ticket simply permits you, at the 
right opportunity, to take your seat and enjoy the performance. 
Money is like the ticket to a steamer or a train. The fact that you 
hold the ticket does not transport you from one place to another; 
it simply admits you to the steamer or train which does transport 
you. 

Tickets are not wealth, but are the community's system of fluid 
and itinerant bookkeeping, giving you credit for a certain amount 
of wealth or services, and acknowledging its indebtedness to you 
to that same amount. When you are seated in the theater or steamer 
you have the service ; and the promise contained in the ticket is 
fulfilled, so the ticket is withdrawn and the indebtedness canceled. 

Money, too, is a fluid system of bookkeeping. A man did 
some good service to some one in the community as his money 
testifies ; he is entitled to some good service from some one as his 
money indicates. He can take his choice in the great market-place 
of the business world as to what he will have in return for what he 
has done. 

Money simplifies the matter of exchange in services. To a 
man alone on an inaccessible island, money would have no value or 
utility, whereas a shovel and a hatchet, a gun and a knife, would be 
of enormous value, though he could not sell this wealth. 

As soon as a community arose with complex industries and 
occupations, some sort of measuring method would have to be 
invented to measure the value of each man's work in relation to the 
other men's work. That was why money was invented — to measure 
and keep track of each man's work, and definitely calculate to how 
much he is entitled of the services of the community. 

Mortgages, stocks and bonds, like money, are not wealth. 
They are promises of the company or government to give to the 
holders of the stocks such and such a percentage of the wealth to 
be created in the future by labor on land assisted by the tool called 
capital. 

This wealth, before the mortgagee or stockholder gets it, is 
received by the community, and the receipt called money is given 
to the stockholder instead of the laborer. 



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For instance, there is a holder of stocks in a railroad company. 
His stocks are a certificate stating that the company will give him 
eight per cent of the money invested. This means that, with the 
trains run on the rails fastened to ties, and with the assistance of 
stations, telegraphs and telephones, the laborers are expected to 
earn a great amount of wealth and to perform a vast amount of 
valuable services to the community. The laborers are many and 
their services various ; there are conductors, brakemen, station- 
masters, engineers, layers of ties and rails, builders, managers, 
directors and so on. All the wealth earned by a railroad comes 
from the passengers and freight-users, who pay generously for the 
services received from the laborers of the road. The stockholder 
gets the credit for some of the services performed and the wealth 
created by these laborers. The community is neither richer nor 
poorer because of the stockholders. The stockholder is richer 
because of the laborer, and the laborer is poorer because of the 
stockholder ; but the fact of the existence of stocks, bonds and 
mortgages puts no more wealth into the world ; their certificates 
are only promises that the Government will compell the earnings of 
the laborer to be handed to the holders of stocks, bonds and mort- 
gages. 

It is not so necessary to grasp this point at this stage. The 
student has done very well if he thoroughly understands : first, that 
land is a universal and omnipresent necessity ; second, that labor is 
all and every species and kind of human effort in business life ; third, 
that wealth is that result in matter, or the material object that is 
produced by human effort, and that it can only be produced on and 
from land ; fourth, that capital is that part of wealth which is set 
aside for making more wealth ; fifth, that money is a certificate 
stating that somebody did some work for somebody, and a ticket 
entitling the holder to somebody's wealth or somebody's help, but 
that in itself money is neither wealth nor help. 

LESSON VI 

AND is Always Used by 
Labor in Making Wealth 

Land can exist without labor ; but as soon as land is employed, 
labor is in evidence, for it is labor that employs land. 

A tree grows in a primeval forest. Standing thus it is land ; 
and as long as it stands thus it is land. 




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In the course of due time a man comes along and chops down 
that tree, which turns it into a log. 

Political Science expresses this primitive incident as follows : 
Land is employed by labor to create wealth. And be the product 
pins or pyramids, cans or canals, and however complicated be the 
process, the principle is the same and the expression in Political 
Science is the same. Land is always used by labor in making wealth 
— " And without him was not anything made that was made," and 
without land was not any wealth made that was made. 

Labor is Always Exerted on Land 

There can be no labor except on land. Even when laborers are 
dealing with the steel girders of a bridge hundreds of feet above a 
river's surface, laborers are working on land. The girders must be 
dug out of the ground ; manufactured by machinery that is dug out 
of the ground ; transported over the ground by vehicles dug out of 
and manufactured on land. They must rest on land until ready to 
be lifted and placed ; they are lifted by machinery that is dug from, 
manufactured on and transported over land ; and finally, by instru- 
ments and machines whose raw material comes from and is fashioned 
into shape on land, are fixed firmly on land for safe leverage. 

From the first incipient inspiration to the removal of the last 
scrap of waste material, labor, never for an instant, left land. 

Wealth Can Not Be Made Without Land 

Wealth, being a segregated piece of earth, naturally can not be 
made without the earth from which it is taken. Dust it is, to dust 
returns. And dust comes from land. 

Even if it were not so stated in the Bible, we would know that 
the heavens and the earth were created before the task of forming 
man was undertaken. The heavens had to be established and 
settled so that the earth would have a propitious place to revolve in. 
And the earth had to be formed and finished before man appeared 
so that he could have a propitious place to labor in. 

Whatever other grotesque notions we were and are guilty of in 
reference to God, we never yet imagined Him making man first and 
holding him in His mouth, or behind His ear, or wedged between His 
elbow and side, or temporarily stuck into one of His pockets while 
He created the heavens and the earth for man's permanent abode. 

Nevertheless there seems to be a general hazy belief that man 
can do what would not be imputed to God ; that is, to create things 
without having a place to create in, or having a place to put the 
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People, even those who consider themselves well educated, are 
not ashamed to confess that, in their opinion, wealth can be made 
without land. 

But just as God took the dust of the earth and formed man out 
of it, so man takes the dust of the earth and forms wealth out of it. 
And that which is not made out of dust is not wealth at all, for money 
is not wealth, and land is not wealth, and bonds and mortgages are 
not wealth. Wealth is something that the hands of labor made 
from the earth. 

LESSON VII 

ABOR Uses Capital to 
Make Wealth From Land 

With a trap a man catches a rabbit in a forest. This is a very 
simple statement of a very simple occurrence, but when translated 
into the language of Political Science the phrase covers every phase 
of the creation of wealth, from the rags of the forlorn and desperate 
beggar in the last stages of destitution, to the palaces, cars and 
yachts, the collection of jewels, curios and works of art of the multi- 
millionaire. With the help of capital, labor extracts wealth from land. 

First is the land, which, in our illustration, consists of the forest 
with the rabbit in it ; for, while the rabbit is disporting itself undis- 
turbed in its native environment, it is classed as land. 

Second is labor, which, in our case, is a man, though under 
other circumstances it might consist of any quantities of men, 
women and children. 

Third is capital, which in the above example is the trap. 

Land, Labor and Capital, these three in combination, cause the 
production of Wealth. 

The wealth produced in our case was the trapped rabbit. In 
its natural state, the rabbit was land ; but trapped, it is wealth. 

And wealth is never anything else than a little piece of land or 
ground taken from the bulk and so modified as to be usable by man. 

And the tool whereby the piece is taken and changed is always 
capital. 

Labor Hires Capital 

The popular belief is, that capital employs labor ; but this is 
another of those errors fostered by a confusion of names and foster- 
ing a bewilderment and disorder in the Science so simple in itself 
and so easily comprehended, and certainly most closely connected with 



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our well-being and prosperity, and therefore most necessary to be 
clearly understood. 

The pseudo-scientists who speak of capital employing labor are 
really talking of the owners of land who can, because of their advan- 
tage in owning land, hire landless laborers to do the work for them 
that the laborers under fair conditions would be doing for them- 
selves with much greater benefits to all humanity. 

Under fair conditions the laborers themselves would be the 
stockholders of our great controlling companies and industries. 

Mine-owners are so powerful, not because they own the capital 
of the mines, but because they own the land containing the coal, oil 
and metal. Railroad magnates are so rich, not because they own 
the capital of the roads, but because they own the land on which 
the rails are laid, and the land on which the terminals are built, and 
the land on each side of the tracks. 

The pseudo-scientist will declare that land is capital, but the genuine 
economist must always distinguish between land and capital ; he 
must remember that capital is wealth and that though this wealth 
is divided into the two parts, the one being wealth in consumption 
and the other capital or wealth used for making more wealth, capital 
still remains wealth ; and wealth is not land any more than it is 
labor. And it is always labor that uses land, also using capital as its tool. 

There is no astuteness or depth of wisdom displayed in saying 
that laborers, even if they had the land, would not use it. Slavery 
arose just because land was plentiful and easily obtained, though 
retained with difficulty against invading enemies. This made land 
almost valueless for selling or renting, and laborers could easily get 
at it. And they could and did and preferred to employ themselves ; 
and only by capturing them bodily and subduing them with physical 
force could they be compelled to work for others. 

The slave-owner was rich because he took the wages created by 
the slaves and kept them for himself, instead of distributing them 
among the enslaved laborers. The slave-owner was not employing 
the slaves ; he was robbing them. 

In civilized States slavery no longer obtains ; but labor, never- 
theless, is not free except on free land. When the laborer, because 
of his own landlessness, is compelled to labor on another's grounds, 
he is as truly robbed of his wages as was the slave of the barbarous 
periods. Not only is the landless laborer robbed of his wages, but 
he is also mulcted of the capital that should be his, and consequently 
also of the interest earned by the capital. 

To determine the relation between labor and capital, the free 
laborer must be considered ; the man on his own land, or on the land 



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that has not yet been individually claimed, must be observed. A 
farmer on his land employs capital, which consists of fences, barns, 
stables, stalls, dairies, cows, horses and farm-implements. These 
objects do not employ him ; he employs them. And he does not 
employ these objects as landowner, but as laborer. 

The pioneer miner employs capital, which consists of shovels, 
knives, spades, pickaxes, drilling-machines, etc. ; these implements 
do not employ him. 

When a farmer is landless and works on ground belonging to 
another, the conditions are as unfair and unjust and abnormal as 
if he were bodily enslaved. 

When the pioneer miners have taken up all the mining lands 
and are being enriched by labors other than their own, they are not 
employing laborers, but robbing them. For landless laborers are 
not less in bondage than the slave recognized as such. 

If, through the abundance of land and the scarcity of labor, the 
employer had to pay the right amount of wages, it would be so 
expensive for him that he would insist that the laborer supply his 
own machines and implements which are so perishable. If through 
adjustments scientifically economic, conditions of fairness could be 
continued even in thickly populated places where land is scarce and 
labor plentiful, the employers would insist that the laborers share in 
the risk of production as they share in the prosperity ; and a system 
of stockholding among laborers for the renewing of worn-out capital 
would be evolved. This would induce the laborers to claim their 
part of the interest of the capital used. And so it would be again 
demonstrated that the laborer employs capital, and not that capital 
employs labor. 

LESSON VIII 

ABOR Pays Capital 
For Its Services 

There is no other possible way of making wealth except by labor 
on land. And either the Landowners, because of the helplessness 
due to the landlessness of the laborers, confiscate all the products and 
make an unscientific distribution according to their own selfish 
pleasure and ignoble gain, or the laborers, through the force of 
the opinion of numbers which forbids fraud, deception or chicanery, 
make a scientific distribution. In this case capital receives its just 
returns from labor. 




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Interest 

Interest is the name given to that part of wealth created by 
labor on land which is accorded to capital for the assistance it renders. 
If this word " interest" is confused in its meaning with theft, graft, 
confiscation, blackmail, rent, wages or any other scientific or unscien- 
tific term, Political Science will remain the mystery and " dismal 
science " it was heretofore regarded. 

Interest arises from Nature's prolific gifts, whereby a grain of 
corn in the Spring yields many ears in the Fall ; and a cow multiplies 
itself many times, even while it furnishes its daily share of milk, 
before its carcass renders its last services to man in glue, manure, 
leather, and what not. 

Nature produced interest ; and Science can not ignore it. 
Interest begins in the enlargement of capital through growth and 
development, and it continues through man's comprehension that 
if one kind of capital receives rewards through Nature, every other 
kind of capital must receive rewards through Science ; so that its 
services in all fields are equally advantageous. 

Rent 

Adam and Eve, when driven from Eden, paid nothing for the 
lands they used. And when their offspring felt crowded they did 
not buy new lots of ground to disburse into, but simply moved 
farther away from the center of population, where the land was 
still unoccupied. They paid no rent ; for great expanses of desirable 
land were free and accessible and of easy communication with 
civilization. 

The first immigrant to America neither paid nor received rent, 
because land could be had for the taking ; and it is notorious that the 
first immigrants grew rich from their labors, and not because they 
owned mines and railroads. 

When pressure of population began to be felt in the East, and 
the first settler drove his ox-cart into the Western Plains, he had the 
whole Mississippi Valley to choose from where to halt and build 
his home and make his farm. Choice of location was difficult with 
him, for all places were equally desirable and equally accessible ; 
one place had no possible advantage over the other. In the bewilder- 
ment of too many choice locations, and in the despair of being able 
to select one place superior to all others, he blindly settled some- 
where, anywhere. 

A second man came along with his ox-cart, household utensils 
and farm-implements. He was not embarrassed like the first man, 
for the place for his settlement was clearly, distinctly and unmis- 



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takably pointed out to him. Tho all places in the Mississippi 
Valley were very desirable, there was just one small spot that held 
an advantage which the whole length and breadth of the rest of the 
fertile pleasant valley lacked. That spot was where the previous 
settler was located. The presence of the man gave that vicinity a 
value, which so far outstripped the value of all the rest of the rich 
plain that the second man did not even investigate other places, but 
unhesitatingly fixed himself in the immediate vicinity of the first 
settler. Two men together work much more advantageously and 
cheerfully than two men separately. Two men together gain 
spiritually in human companionship and physically in human 
co-operation. The land received a desirability and an advantage 
because a MAN was there. It was the Man who bestowed the 
superior value to that locality. 

The third man who came to make a home on the plains settled 
himself with even greater enthusiasm beside the first two ; for the 
land had gained even higher value, had even a greater advantage 
because two settlers were there. 

The advent of each settler that time and conditions added to 
the number made the vicinity more and more desirable. 

A community whose nucleus was a village with a named and 
numbered street and which was surrounded by miles upon miles of 
farms and pastures had arisen in the place where a few years before 
our first settler located himself in sheer despair of finding something 
better where all looked equally excellent. 

Suppose a man were now to look upon that village, and in it 
saw a vacant lot in its little street ; and suppose he saw in that lot 
a fine place and opportunity to build a billiard-parlor or a grocery- 
store. Could he now get the ground by simply settling himself 
upon it? It is evident that the prospective user of the lot would 
have to pay for its use. And he would have to pay not so much 
because the land belonged to another, for the contrary is true — that 
other was holding the land, though not using it, because he knew the 
lot had a financial value. That value was created by the community. 
And the value grows greater and greater as the community grows 
larger and larger. AND THAT IS RENT. 

Rent is the value which accrues to land by the presence of 
people. The more people are located in a district the higher is the 
rent of that place. 

And let not the student ever confuse the value of land with the 
earnings of capital. The price paid for the use of a house is interest, 
because the house is capital. If a higher price attaches to a house 
similar in all respects but situated in a more populous locality, 



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the user pays rent for land, which is the ground lot, and interest 
for the capital, which is the house. 

The distinction between interest and rent must be clearly 
maintained if the student is to bring his studies to a successful issue. 

Wades 

Land is the indispensable prime necessity of labor in the creation 
of wealth. 

Extremely, even overwhelmingly useful, but not absolutely 
indispensable, is the tool called capital. 

But labor is the creator of wealth, using the tool and using it 
on land. 

When the wealth is created it must be distributed, the land 
having earned its share, and capital its particular share. Never- 
theless, labor, because of its efforts, deserves to keep a goodly share 
for itself. 

The share which labor deserves to keep is called wages. 

Wades is labor's share of wealth created by labor on 
land helped by capital. 

Profits 

The word " Profits " has no place in Political Science. It is 
an unscientific term and is never used by a genuine political economist. 
For the word, having no definite meaning of its own, is liable 
to be interpreted differently by speaker and hearer and so cause a 
repetition in miniature of the disaster described in the Bible, where 
the work of building the tower of Babel was abruptly interrupted by 
the confusion of tongues. 

LESSON IX 
Distribution 
jjT is a generally accepted fact that the heinous fault and 
terrible cause of poverty culminating in that most pitiful, 
most desolate, and seemingly most hopeless class known as 
the " submerged tenth " is not in the production of wealth, 
but in its distribution. 

It is almost universally acknowledged that there is enough 
wealth to keep each individual of the ten billions supposed to 
inhabit the earth, steeped in the princely luxuries of the dreamers 
of the East, if each male adult worked but two hours a day. 

A dreamer of the West can dream of even greater wonders 
without straining probability, simply supposing the equitable — not 
equal, but equitable — distribution of the wealth produced. 




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There was a time when the poverty of the masses was attributed 
to their own laziness, ignorance, indifference, natural viciousness and 
what not ? or, worse still, to the " inscrutable decree of Providence " ; 
but people at present are too well educated for such a doctrine to 
be preached or received. 

To solve properly the problem of an equitable — I repeat, 
equitable, not equal — distribution of wealth, many political parties 
have arisen and many doctrines been preached. But upon analysis these 
doctrines all resolve themselves into two distinct and opposing 
classes, whose extremes we find on the one hand in the theories of 
the anarchists, who advocate individualism, and on the other, those 
of the socialists, who would promote governmental co-operativeness. 
All the intervening political theories lean to or have their basis in 
one or the other of the foundations of these extreme doctrines. 

Because Government guards and protects the avenues through 
which the created wealth mechanically flows to the disproportionate 
few, the anarchist would destroy Government, thereby withdrawing 
the protection to these avenues and so permitting any individual to 
deflect the trend of the wealth away from its mechanical tendency, 
to himself, where, he justly reasons, it justly belongs. 

The socialist, realizing that, without the protection of Govern- 
ment, wealth could not even be created, nor even could the liberty 
gained by the anarchist be long maintained, but that chaos would 
immediately crystallize itself into some rude, primitive order which 
would only end again in the wealth flowing through the same chan- 
nels to another limited few, therefore proposes that the Government, 
whose official function already it is to protect the laborer and the 
wealth in its production, distribution and consumption, should itself 
officially assume the function of producing and distributing wealth. 

As the trend of civilization is toward an even greater organiza- 
tion and an ever more far reaching and intimate co-operation, the 
goal of the political idealist and political scientist must be the same. 
While the Socialist is dreaming and inspiring others with his glorified 
vision, the Scientist solves the problem and shows the " way " to 
work out the ideal into a reality ; and the natural, scientific, spiritual 
method is plain enough to him who hath the eye to see, the heart to 
feel, and the courage to do. 

There is no fault, and few and ignorant are those who find a 
fault with the present method of production which is effected by 
labor on land aided by the tool called capital. 

There is no fault to find with the distribution as long as popula- 
tion is sparse and the laborer gets the bulk of his wages, and capital 



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is enterprising and gets big interest, and the landlord gets nothing 
or next to nothing. 

Only as rent for land gets higher and higher do wages and 
interest decrease and does capital become fearsome. Rent, we 
find, is produced by population. Where population is sparse rent 
is low ; it rises with each added member to society. Evidently, then, 
society creates rent. 

A shoemaker makes shoes, so the shoes belong to the shoemaker. 
Society makes rent, so the rent belongs to society. 

For the sake of justice to society, but chiefly for the sake of 
stopping up the leak through which the wealth flows away from the 
vast majority of ever drudging laborers, into the private pouches of 
a few undeserving, overindulged individuals, society as a whole 
must take the rent it creates as a whole. This it can do by means of 
the social machinery already organized for the purpose of collecting 
the necessary funds for its maintenance. The social machinery is 
called government, and its method for collecting revenue is called 
taxation. 

When a man must hand over to government all the rent he 
collects for his lands ; when he must give to the government all the 
rent he would collect for his lands if it were used to its last dollar's 
worth, he will be scrupulously careful to use it zealously or give it 
up cheaply, even going to the extent in extreme cases of disowning 
it altogether. 

If land is used zealously, laborers are employed ; and unemployed 
labor disappears in proportion. Whereas, on the other hand, if 
land is withdrawn from use, the menace of unemployed labor hangs 
over the nations. 

If land is disowned it is free, and labor is free to take it and 
employ itself upon it ; and the landlord is eliminated, which is a very 
good thing for labor and the prosperity of the community. 

As free land and cheap land, and land that seeks employment 
insure an equitable distribution of the created wealth, it is not only 
just but expedient to withhold from the landlord the rents that are 
not his, and with that one fell blow transmute the channels that 
drew from labor its rewards into the way of securing revenue for 
civic affairs. 

Scientific Political Statement 

This was given in the Introduction, but as it is proper to 
repeat it at this place it is here added again as the culmination of 
Political Science. 



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Wealth made by Labor on Land helped by Capital is 

divided into three parts : 

One part goes to Land as Rent. 

The second part goes to Capital as Interest. 

The third part Labor keeps as Wages. 

If Wages are taken to meet Municipal Expenses, the 
Laborer perishes or lives on charity. 

If Interest is taken, Capital perishes ; and also the 
capitalist as such, for he swells the ranks of Labor. 

If rent is taken, the Landlord as such perishes ; but 
the land remains for the laborer and capitalist. 

Therefore Rent is the part of Wealth destined by the 
divine Mind to pay the public expenses. 

The anarchists, exponents of individual action, wish to destroy 
all discipline, force and regulation in civic affairs. They would find 
it sufficient to destroy the landlord, which could be done by taking 
for civic affairs the rents of his lands. 

The socialists, exponents of governmental co-operation, wish 
to destroy all private ownership of wealth. They would find it 
sufficient to destroy the private ownership of land, which could be 
done by taking the rents thereof for civic purposes. 

The rent of land is produced by a community, and to the com- 
munity it belongs for the needs of the community. 



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<jHEN the great John Locke wrote his Essay on the Human 
Understanding, he especially declared that his analyses 
were not final, but were simply milestones and finger- 
posts to point out the road and give suggestions to 
others who should hereafter make investigations of the 
human consciousness and find its true and fundamental 
qualities, functions and processes. 

John Locke treated the human understanding as an incor- 
poreal substance. He spoke of the sense of sight, but never referred 
to the organ by which we see — the eye — except to declare that 
sight lodges not in it but has its ability in the understanding, or 
what we now speak of as consciousness. The ear had no place in 
his essays, but the sense of hearing was spoken of as an attribute of 
mind. 

Memory, too, to him was a function, a subdivision of the under- 
standing ; also the power of association, the power of the will, the 
power of discrimination or comparison, of judgment and so forth. 
Herbert Spencer, on the contrary, clung to the body, and left 
out entirely the human understanding. To him, all qualities, ideas, 
emotions and expressions, were a matter of the vibrations of the 
nerve-fluids and brain-cell. He surmounted the difficulty of trans- 
muting vibrating cells into ideas and cognitions, by declaring the 
transmutation was a mystery which could not be solved, for there 
was no logical or possible connection between vibrating molecules 
and the mental process of knowing. 

But there was one great man who analyzed the human under- 
standing and recognized its incorporeal or non-material essence, but 
who, nevertheless, did not leave out the human body, for he needed 
it so much, and understood and explained so well its inevitableness. 
He needed the corporeal part to express the incorporeal. 
His great study was expression. He made researches into the 
mystery of expression, and his investigations uncovered to him the 
fact that expression was a quality and function of the mind, though 
the body was most essential to the expression of the mind in oratory, 
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In the course of the great student's profound researches, it was 
revealed to him that there was something behind the outward form, 
namely, the thing to be expressed, which must by its very nature 
be fundamentally different from the expression, though that some- 
thing, too, was still more evidently a quality, an attribute, a function 
of the mind. 

The thing to be expressed he found in all instances to be EMO- 
TION, feeling, an attraction to an object or a revulsion from it. 
The stalest, flattest, least profitable ; the deadest, most useless, yea, 
the most impossible state of mind, is poise or equipoise ; such a state 
is but a suspension of animation. Except in death and intermittent 
periods of recuperation, it is contrary to Nature, logic and science. 
It is the false product of a false civilization ; for, without emotion, 
there can be no expression, and without expression there can be 
no existence, no universe, no creation. 

So our great philosopher and psychologist, in analyzing expres- 
sion, found it was the final and culminating function of mind, a 
function impelled by emotion. 

If we search further into the mysteries of mind, we find, as did 
our predecessor Delsarte — the pioneer in the study of expression — 
that emotion, too, must have a cause, a reason, a way to have been 
called into being. 

And what was it that said to the understanding : Let there be 
Emotion? Indisputably, it was a thought, an idea, or, as John 
Locke would say, a cognition. 

Therefore, to bring about an expression or action, the first 
process is, to know some thing, some object. The knowledge of that 
object makes us feel pleasant or unpleasant ; that is, we have an 
Emotion. And according to whether the emotion is pleasant or 
unpleasant we move toward it or away from it ; that is, we express, 
we act, we create. 

TO KNOW 
TO FEEL 
TO DO 

These three processes analyze and divide the mind's functions into 
all its parts ; and all the varieties of expression are only the various 
complications, multiplications, divisions, proportions and inten- 
sities of these three processes. 

The processes of the intelligence, the Ego, whether this Ego be a 
presumed personal God, or the simplest of living cells, still are 
of the triune nature of knowing, feeling and doing. And whether 



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an expression is the result of an act just completed by a visible 
being, or it loses its origin in the universal creation, still is it the 
result of a triune process of knowing, feeling and doing. In these 
three processes are locked the science of Mind ; also the science of 
the Universe, whether apprehended intermediately by the senses 
or immediately by the understanding. 

We know now from our analysis of the human mind that an 
expression comes from an emotion, and that an emotion is produced 
by a thought. And what is true of the visible universe is just as 
true of the invisible. 

Delsarte, the profound scholar and student and expounder of 
expression, the great philosopher and psychologist who discovered 
the three attributes and functions of the Mind, formulated his dis- 
coveries thus : 

The attribute which enables Mind to know he called Wisdom; 
the attribute which enables Mind to feel, he called Love; and the 
attribute which enables Mind to do, to act, to perform, he called 
Power. 

WISDOM knows 

LOVE feels 

POWER acts 

Wisdom, Love and Power are very good attributes, whether 
they belong to Deity, or are the sublime incorporeal Principle after 
which man is patterned. And on these three attributes, atheist, 
agnostic and pious religionist in his adherence to an ecclesiastical 
school can agree, also agreeing to ignore for the present any con- 
siderations of a corporeal personality, which, even if it does exist, 
can, after all, be but the expression of an anterior Wisdom, Love 
and Power. 

Delsarte recognized that man's triune nature of knowing, 
feeling and doing was patterned after, reflected or repeats in minia- 
ture, the universal Wisdom, Love and Power ; and upon this prin- 
ciple he built his most beautiful, most artistic because most natural, 
scientific and psychological system of gesture. 

Put 3 fwbc built upon tins triune principle, mv Spiritual Science. 

For it is obvious that man's capacity of knowing, feeling and doing 
can not be separated or segregated from the attributes of the uni- 
versal nature, any more than the matter contained in the body of 
man can be classified separately and differently from that of the 
rest of the material nature. 

Jesus said, " My Father and I are one." This is true materi- 
ally, and it can not be less true spiritually. The universal attributes 



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of Wisdom, Love and Power are demonstrated by the minute separate 
living beings such as angels, anthropoids, ants and ameba ; but still 
the demonstrations must exist in and by their Principle. 

A thought brings out an emotion, the emotion impells an 
expression. When we perceive an expression we must be aware it 
was produced by an emotion, which in its turn was brought into 
being by a perception. And where is the profit of caviling about 
the nature of the substance of the creation whether it is material or 
mental ? Let it suffice that we can agree upon the process of creation 
which in all instances is founded upon the one triune principle of 
Wisdom, Love and Power with its functions of knowing, feeling 
and creating. 

Those that have followed my teachings so far, and have under- 
stood me, will comprehend that my Spiritual Science is based upon 
a strong scientific foundation which embraces all the mental, religious 
and physical aspects of life. And if you acknowledge so much, you 
can not deny that such a science is closely allied to a political science 
that also has a strong scientific basis with a superstructure that 
extends up into the ethical, the moral and the spiritual regions. 

Having fully explained and defined my meaning of the word 
" spiritual " in the section devoted to the study of Spiritual Science, 
I will here, for the purpose of recalling the sense of the word, merely 
summarize in a short description. 

" Spiritual " is pertaining to spirit ; and " spirit " I define as a 
state of mind. The child believes in a personal Santa Claus of a 
shaggy, jovial, red-nosed appearance ; but the adult, more sophisti- 
cated in this detail of life, is no less excited and gratified by the 
Christmas spirit of festivity, gladness, cheer, beneficence and gayety. 
The Christmas spirit does not refer to some particular incorporeal 
consciousness, but to a general state of mind. And thus my Spiritual 
Science is the science of the universal state of mind, though, of 
course, it includes infinitely more than merely the Christmas spirit. 

In the history of the evolution of man, we find that the search 
after Spiritual Science and the search after Political Science are 
inextricably interwoven. There can be no political progress without 
religious progress. The mind that has freed itself from the bonds 
of some of its spiritual superstitions has also freed itself from some of 
the bonds of its political superstitions. 

The anarchist and atheist to the contrary notwithstanding, the 
Social Compact called government, and religion are the two neces- 
sities of the human heart, as air and food are the necessities of the 
human body. As land monopoly is based upon a recognition of 
our material necessities, so priestcraft is based upon the recognition 



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of our spiritual necessities ; and it is man's problem to free himself 
from the exploiters of his needs. To quote from A Great Iniquity, 
by Tolstoy, " Great social reforms," says Mazzini, " always have 
been and always will be the result of great religious movements." 
And to supplement this quotation by a more recent authority, 
Elbert Hubbard in The Philistine says, "The Millennium will come, 
only thru the scientific acceptance of piety." 

That others have seen the close connection between religion 
and Political Economy may be accepted as a fact, in evidence of 
which I may mention The Public, a Chicago Single-Tax weekly 
publication which contained advertisements of two books on the 
subject ; one is by Louis Wallis on the Sociological Study of the 
Bible; the other by Frank Crane called God and Democracy. 

According to the review in The Public of Sociological Study of 
the Bible, the Bible is apprehended to be a history of the Jews 
simultaneously progressing religiously and sociologically. 

God and Democracy belong together without doubt. Taking 
the word " God " to be the nickname or pet name for the principle 
of Wisdom, Love and Power, we can recognize Democracy as the 
Son of God, in that it is a demonstration of Political Wisdom, 
Brotherly Love and the Power gained in harmonious co-operation. 
The two are so closely united that if you have the spiritual ear you 
can hear Democracy say, " My Father and I are one." 

Of course there can be no true democracy without universal 
suffrage, meaning specifically Woman Suffrage. And of course 
there can be no true Democracy without the Single Tax, by which 
means only is equal opportunity possible to all. And again the 
spiritual ear hears the Single Tax say, " I am the Way, the Truth 
and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me." There 
can be no Democracy, hence no spirituality, but by the practical 
application of Political Science. 

And I hear the Scientific Tax say : " Ye believe in the Father, 
believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions ; I 
go to prepare a place for you, so that where I am there ye may be 
also." 

The Ten Commandments command the practise of the Scien- 
tific Tax. 

" Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 

Thou shalt worship — practise — only Wisdom, Love and Power. 
If you have the unwisdom, the hatefulness and the inefficiency of 
land-monopoly, you break the first and foremost commandment. 
Land-monopoly is abolished by the Scientific Tax. 

" Thou shalt not kill." 



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How can you obey that commandment without the Scientific 
Tax ! ! Land-monopoly has killed its " Thousand times thousand 
and thousands of thousands." Such murder is unavoidable with 
land-monopoly. 

" Thou shalt not steal." 

Under the institution of land-monopoly the laborer and the 
capitalist are not only robbed of their actual wealth, but — and this 
is a matter of far, FAR greater consequence — they are robbed of all 
opportunity to redeem their misfortune. 

The Lord's Prayer, too, is a prayer for the Political Science : 

" Our Father which art in heaven." 

Our Wisdom, Love and Power whose processes are perfect and 
consequently include Political Science. 

" Hallowed be thy name," 

Let us understand thee ; 

" Thy kingdom come." 

Woman Suffrage, the Scientific Tax — in short, Democracy come ; 

" Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven." 

The ideal processes of Wisdom, Love and Power be practically 
demonstrated on the Political plane as on the spiritual. 

" Give us this day our daily bread." 

Under no circumstances can we hold more than the mouthful 
that we at the moment consume ; but by Political Science, which is 
a part of Spiritual Science, we will be sure of our next mouthful, 
though the present institutions of legal murder and theft are abolished. 

" For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever 
and ever. Amen." 

For Wisdom, Love and Power are the only qualities, and their 
processes go on forever and ever, Amen. 




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CAIN AND ABEL 

The Spiritual Interpretation of the Story in its Political Sense 

|DAM and Eve represent the tendencies of our civilization. 
At a certain stage they brought forth Cain, the tiller of 
the ground, which signifies the exploitation of ground 
rent and the only reason for titles to land. 

As a consequence a landless class appeared, which 
having no legal right to ground of its own, was forced to 
labor on others' ground. Abel is the class of landless laborers. 

The wealth obtained by land monopoly is unholy, being con- 
demned by Principle and the eternal Laws of Wisdom, Love and 
Power ; hence the Lord had no respect unto Cain, the exploiter, and 
to his offering, the fruits of exploitation. 

Wealth, however vast, if obtained by labor, is pure and righteous. 
So the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering, which was the 
result of his efforts. 

Not because of jealousy, but by the mere fact of taking ground- 
rent as a private asset, does Cain, the landowner, kill Abel, the 
landless laborer, who must pay Cain the ground-rent besides being 
deprived of any opportunity for self -employment, and also, as an 
additional burden to the other disadvantages, must pay the municipal 
expenses. Hence Justice declares against the robbery, and Political 
Science pronounces the curse on Cain : 

" When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield 
unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in 
the earth." (Genesis iv : 12.) 

And Cain, seeing how unprofitable it is, under the practical 
application of Political Science, to own land, the rental value of 
which he must pay into the public treasury, makes his wail upon 
relinquishing his title to the ground, expires as a landlord and is 
resurrected as a laborer: "Behold thou hast driven me out this 
day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; 
and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall 
come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me. * * * * 
And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any one finding him should 
slay him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and 
dwelt in the Land of Nod." (Genesis iv : 14.) 

The " presence of the Lord " means legal sanction and common 
consent, and the " Land of Nod " signifies that the evil of privately 
acquired unearned increment with its predatory privileges is a 
sleeping possibility ready to awake into activity should the watch- 
fulness of the citizen relax. 



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ESAU AND JACOB 

The Spiritual Interpretation of the Story With lis Political Significance 

Definitions of the Concordance and Smith's Bible Dictionary: 

Isaac, Laughter. 

Israel, The Prince that prevails with God. 

Rebekah, Ensnarer ; fetter ; fettering cord. 

Jacob, Supplanter ; a plain man. 

Esau, Hairy ; a cunning hunter ; a man of the field. 

The Spiritual Meaning 

Isaac stands for the status of society in its legislation ; or the 
social compact, producing a more peaceful and enjoyable state than 
offered by the nomadic life preceding it. This idea is indicated by 
the meaning of the name " laughter." 

Esau stands for invention ; or industrial endeavor in new and 
untried fields. Because of the security, there was time for medita- 
tion, experiments and improvements. 

Jacob is the same old land monopoly, which brings its bene- 
ficiaries all the increase in wealth resulting from every kind of 
improvement. 

Rebekah, true to Smith's definition, signifies the Judiciary, 
which interprets the laws in favor of the monopolistic class ; con- 
niving to keep the fetters of poverty and drudgery upon the land- 
less laborers, in spite of all legislation and enactments to free them. 

Venison signifies that which is of advantage to the community. 

Israel is the Prince of Privilege convicted of the errors of land- 
lordism, and by his efforts to abolish that evil institution is pro- 
nounced the Prince that prevails with God. 

" Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison ; but 
Rebekah loved Jacob." 

Legislation did what it could to further industry and improve- 
ments, but the Judiciary, installed by the influence of the Privileged, 
always interpreted the laws and enactments in favor of the predatory 
interest. "Jacob sold pottage." He had control of all the neces- 
saries of life. 

" And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same 
red pottage, for I am faint. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy 
birthright." Land is the birthright; and the people who in their 
ignorance and weakness permitted their lands to be taken and given 
away to private individuals, like Esau, despised their birthright and 
sold it for a bare living, whereas they should be enjoying, through 



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the lands, all the abundant fruits of wealth of a wealth-producing 
civilization. 

One day Isaac called Esau to him saying, " Take, I pray thee, 
thy weapon, thy quiver and thy bow and go out to the field and 
take me some venison and make me savory meat such as I love and 
bring it to me that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee." 

Esau's weapon, the quiver and the bow, represents any tool of 
labor ; and the direction to go out to the fields is the impulsion and 
activities, the intelligence and ambition of the people in general, 
and of some special geniuses and inventors in particular. The 
savory meat is the improvement in all directions — the standard of 
living, the labor-saving machinery, facilities for education, improve- 
ments in modes of communication and transportation, and so on 
and so forth. 

The purpose of legislation, even to the farce of " protecting the 
American laborer," is to secure to the beneficiaries all the blessings 
due them. 

But " Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son," and 
she instructed Jacob how to get for himself the benefits intended for 
his elder brother, the greater and more important majority, though 
still twin brother to the minority. 

Rebekah, the judiciary, could never have connived with Jacob, 
the monopolist, to the damage of Esau, the masses, had not Esau 
previously sold his birthright, the land, for a meager living. 

Since ground is the source of all our wealth, the owner of the 
ground gets all the wealth ; and with land monopoly in force, even 
if the judiciary desired, it could not aid the landless masses. Isaac 
has no blessing left for Esau, for to the son's bitter cry, " Bless me, 
even me also, O my father! " Isaac could only say, " Behold, I 
have made him thy Lord, and all his brethren have I given to him as 
servants ; and with corn and wine have I sustained him : and what 
shall I do now unto thee, my son? " 

This state of affairs, while it brought affluence and luxury to the 
landed class, brought overwork and poverty, criminal tendencies 
and other miseries to the landless. And Jacob, the rich class, having 
leisure, meditated upon the contrast and injustice thereof. 

Jacob had a dream : " And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder 
set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and, behold, 
the angels of God ascending and descending on it." Just so have 
other great thinkers dreamed of a close communion between earth 
and heaven ; just so have they pictured in their dreams an ideal 
state made a practical reality. 



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" And Jacob was alone ; and there wrestled a man with him 
until the breaking of the day." So is every thinker alone when 
wrestling with a subject that is new and seemingly not altogether 
favorable to himself. The breaking of the day signifies the righteous 
conclusion to his quandary, for we read further, " And when he saw 
that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his 
thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled 
with him." 

This was Jacob's recognition of the evil of privilege, or, specific- 
ally, landlordism. Through landlordism Jacob gained his great 
wealth ; and by acknowledging its evil to himself he crippled himself 
in his stronghold typified by the thigh. 

" And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, 
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." The truth was dawning 
upon Jacob and he felt the beneficent influence of the cognition. 

" And he said, What is thy name? And he said Jacob. And 
he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as 
a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." 

So Jacob, seeing the unrighteousness of private ownership in 
land, is no longer a monopolist, but a worker for the emancipation of 
the sufferers from landlordism, a prince among men and thinkers. 

" And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have 
seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." Every Political 
Scientist, when the great truth that the rent created by the people 
belongs to the people for their social expenses, dawns upon him, 
feels that he has seen the sustaining Good face to face. And the 
greatest wonder is the realization that men can be perfectly good and 
true and generous and just to the rest of humanity and still that 
their own life and prosperity are preserved. 

With the scientific application of economics we need not sacrifice 
our own blessings to see the rest of the world equally blessed. 

" And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau 
came. * * * And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell 
on his neck and kissed him : and they wept." 

When monopolies — especially the worst, land monopoly — are 
abolished, there will nevermore be conflicts between capital and 
labor and the capitalist and the laborer. 

There will be a perfect reconciliation between the twin brothers, 
and an interdependence will be but another cause for mutual love 
and respect, instead of, as heretofore, contempt for the unfortunate 
class, and hatred and envy for the fortunate. 




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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 

Spiritually Interpreted in Their Political Sense 

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me 

|OD is the principle of Wisdom, Love and Power ; man is 
its image and likeness in his mental, impulsive and active 
or performative natures. Wisdom, Love and Power 
must rule in his social and communal life as well as in 
his individual. To be perfectly wise, perfectly loving 
and perfectly efficient in his social relations, the Scientific 
Tax is necessary. Without the Scientific Tax, which takes the rent 
of land made by society for the uses of society, chaotic unwisdom, 
hate and inefficiency would destroy what the evolutionary processes 
of Wisdom, Love and Power had, so far, so laboriously built up. 
Therefore thou shalt have, in thy political dominion, no other Gods 
before the Wisdom, Love and Power as expressed in the Scientific 
Tax. 

Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image 

Wisdom, Love and Power, being spiritual, can have no visual 
representation. 

Civilized man has outgrown the temptation of trying to make 
a picture of incorporeal Principle. 

The danger of modern man is to halt in his search for the 
Source of things, thus becoming afflicted with arrested development 
and to be petrified in that state. As soon as man's consciousness 
becomes petrified, his ideas of God, Wisdom, Love and Power are 
petrified, and that is the " graven image " prohibited in the Second 
Commandment. 

But the Scientific Tax, in making land free to the user, will 
prevent such a calamity as arrested development, and the disease 
of petrified consciousness will be wiped out, and man will forever 
know more, feel more and do more as his appreciation of Wisdom, 
Love and Power grows. 

But only through the Scientific Tax can this commandment be 
obeyed, which, by making land free, makes man free. 

Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord 
Thy God in Vain 

The spirit, the ideal, the prototype, the principle, is triune ; it 
is Wisdom, Love and Power. For humanity in general, and even 
the individual in particular, it is vanity to manifest one of the divine 
qualities above the other two. The perfect equilibrium of the 



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necessary qualities is maintained in the Scientific Tax, in that it is 
perfectly just, thus representing Wisdom ; perfectly generous, thus 
representing Love ; perfectly feasible or performable, thus represent- 
ing Power. It surpasses any puny scheme or machination of man's 
invention as infinity surpasses the infinitesimal. 

Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy 

The Sabbath was made for man to rest and recuperate. The 
male man has partially succeeded in gaining a partial rest-day. 
But the female man, doomed to isolation and hard work in her 
safely guarded home, works and worries and hurries and hustles and 
bustles as much — and sometimes even more — on Sundays as on other 
days. But the two-edged sword. Suffrage, and the Lamb, the 
Scientific Tax, which in conjunction with Suffrage will give her 
economic freedom, will enable her, too, to obey the Fourth Com- 
mandment, so necessary to her existence and happiness and develop- 
ment. 

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother 

The principle, Wisdom, Love and Power, in its unceasing 
processes of knowing, feeling and doing, evolved man up to his 
present stature. The only honor possible to the father and mother 
who brought us forth is to proceed and not retrograde in the evo- 
lutionary procession. But without the Scientific Tax this is not 
possible. Land monopoly is an impediment to the moral evolution 
of those who own land and an impediment to the physical evolu- 
tion of those who lack the land. Therefore, the Scientific Tax is 
necessary even to obey the Fifth Commandment. The anti-suf- 
fragist is flagrantly disobedient to this commandment as it relates to 
his mother. 

Thou Shalt Not Kill 

Murder sanctioned legally is nevertheless forbidden spiritually, 
morally and ethically. The legal institution of land monopoly is 
the cause of wholesale poverty, crime, sickness and death. It is 
the cause of the disastrous conditions under which the helpless 
masses must live and labor. It must be abolished before the Sixth 
Commandment can be obeyed in spirit and in truth. Land monopoly 
is a murderer, and if it shall not kill, it must itself be removed. The 
David to kill this Goliath, with the single stone of truth shot from 
the sling of Principle, is the Scientific Tax, the one and only Single 
Tax. 



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Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery 

As people grow wiser, more loving and more efficient, their 
ideas of adultery change. Even now, in many countries, what is 
adultery for a woman is a perfectly legitimate practise for a man. 
Some churches condemn the remarriage of divorcees as adultery ; 
other churches condone such marriages. Marriage is a social 
compact ; and like all social compacts, man makes and breaks it, 
but woman, though not taken into the compact, must abide by it. 
Already a self-respecting woman considers a loveless marriage sheer 
adultery. 

Now we know, as the sons and daughters of God, that all is not 
adultery that common ignorance calls adultery, and all is not chastity 
that masculine consent calls chastity. It doth not yet appear what 
we shall know, with the Scientific Tax to give us liberty and Woman 
Suffrage to give us power. 

Thou Shalt Not Steal 

Justice and Equity, a commandment of God, condemns land 
monopoly because it permits wholesale theft. By it labor is robbed 
of its earnings, and the earnings of the capital which rightly also 
belong to the laborer as the user of land and capital. With the 
abolition of land monopoly, which can only be successfully accom- 
plished by taking rental value for the public fund, the wholesale 
transgression of this commandment will cease. 

And an honest living will be so much easier and more profitable 
to the individual that the small individual thefts will also cease of 
their own accord or by the law of the course of least resistance. 

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness 

There can be nothing more disastrously false in bearing witness 
than to state that one man can get a valid, honest title to a piece of 
God's earth. God never gave a man a lot of ground, and if he 
acquired it by taking, another man has just as valid a right to take 
it from him. Because of a feeling that this is so, wars of acquisition 
and conquest are waged. When land will be free to all who use it 
to its utmost capacity, and an honest living will be easier than a 
dishonest one, false witness, like stealing, ceases because of its 
unprofitableness . 

Thou Shalt Not Covet 

" Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all these things 
shall be added unto you." First, Political Science, especially the 



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Scientific Tax, and all else will follow. Then why waste valuable 
time and effort in coveting, when acquiring is so much easier and more 
pleasurable ! 

IN POLITICAL SCIENCE WE OBEY THE TEN 
COMMANDMENTS 



THE LORD"S PRAYER 

Spiritually Applied to Political Science 

Our Father Which Art in Heaven 

Heaven means harmony; and "father" the source of being. 
The Father-Mother God, the original Wisdom, Love and Power, the 
substance, activity and manifestation in its last conceivable analysis, 
is harmonious with itself and with each of its divisions, subdivisions 
and minute parts and functions. Political Science, too, is in har- 
mony and consequently just as spiritual, true and uplifting as any 
other part of Spiritual Science. 

Hallowed Be Thy Name 

A conscious recognition of the supreme principle gives nourish- 
ment to the superman as a deep breath of fresh air or a draft of cold 
water gives satisfaction to the physical man. 

The Scientist, in contemplation of his marvelous, miraculous, 
wondrous Political Science, stands before it enthralled, enraptured 
and inspired ; and this is an experience which even the atheistic 
political economist does not escape, though he may deny, being 
probably ignorant that his superman is praying. " Hallowed be thy 
name." 

Thy Kingdom Come 

Wisdom. Love and Power rule. Let Wisdom guide. Love impel 
and Power enact. Thus will Political Science, with its Scientific 
Tax to properly and equitably distribute the wealth made by labor 
on land and expedited by capital, be established on earth to wipe 
out forever poverty, sickness, crime and premature death. 

Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven 

The practical application be patterned after the spiritual. To 
obey this commandment there is no escapement from the Scientific 
Tax which is the divinely perfect method for the distribution of the 
produce of labor on land. 



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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread 

This world is so constituted that we live each day by only that 
day's labor. Fresh eggs, fresh meat, milk and bread are some of the 
obvious necessities that each day's labor brings into existence for 
that day's consumption. All other wealth is equally if not as 
obviously perishable. An obstacle to production and commerce 
would in a few days, by starvation, deplete the world of its popula- 
tion. 

The application of Political Science, especially the Scientific 
Tax, by promoting the production and distribution of life's neces- 
sities and luxuries, is the fundamental essence of this prayer. 

And Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive 
Our Debtors 

Mankind owes this debt to the laborer that he receive the full 
reward of his labor. As Esau forgave Jacob, so will the laborer 
forgive the landowner as soon as he pays the rent into the public 
treasury. 

Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us 

From Evil 

Give us no privileges beyond our fellows, whether of suffrage, 
private ownership of land or any other species of monopoly ; for 
privilege beclouds the sense of justice and equity, than which there 
is nothing higher, not even charity. 

For Thine Is the Kingdom and the Power and the 
Glory Forever 

For the only government that can stand is the one founded on 
the ideal where intelligence guides ; the natural desire to improve 
and develop impells ; and through suffrage and other manifest 
avenues, men and women can enact their own laws according to 
their constantly increasing and improving understanding of the 
prototype, the original Wisdom, Love and Power. 




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REVELATIONS 

THE ALLEGORIES OF REVELATIONS, THEIR SYMBOLS INTER- 
PRETED INTO POLITICAL SCIENCE 

Chapter I 

)HN by an angel received revelations which he recorded 
to the seven churches of Asia. 

In its symbolical sense " angel " means an impulse 
to grow, to develop and progress ; an inspiration ; a 
forward movement in evolution. 

The number seven is the symbol of perfection and 
completeness. But it must be remembered that each completed 
fact, age and step in evolution is but an incentive to a new effort for 
a higher accomplishment. 

" Churches " are the avenues, institutions or instruments 
through which we receive our wisdom and our incentive to grow. 
This idea is emphasized by the seven candlesticks, types of enlighten- 
ment, and the seven stars, types of achievement and distinction. 
Let it be remembered that all names and words, especially the word 
" church," are used by me in their strictly figurative or symbolical 
sense. Hence I conceive these revelations to be addressed to any 
and every avenue of evolution. 

The two-edged sword has been so frequently used in poetry, 
literature and oratory that we instinctively and immediately recog- 
nize the symbol as the word of truth that cuts down, exposes and 
destroys the erroneous opinions that hedge about and would impede 
the progressive idea. 

In this picture I recognize the " two-edged sword " to signify 
universal suffrage by means of which old errors are cut out and new 
ones warded off. The" Son of Man " is the people, the masses, now 
having full and unobstructed suffrage. 

The two-edged sword coming out of the mouth of the son of 
man is the power co-operatively used for the solution of the problems 
of the day. 

Chapter II — That avenue of enlightenment and instrument of 
progress mentioned in Revelations as the " Church of the Ephesians " 
may be taken for granted to represent the handles of suffrage, such as 
preferential primaries, initiative, referendum, recall, and all those 
other and improved methods that shall constantly appear in the 
course of evolution. If these methods are not altogether pure and 
correct, their candlestick will be removed from its place, and that 
method shall be abolished to make room for something better ; for 



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any institution that is pitted against progress and development is 
doomed to extinction. 

The religious impulse, called in Revelations the " Church of 
Smyrna," if faithful to its own instincts, can not be hurt by the 
parasitism and " blasphemies " of ecclesiasticism and professional 
ecclesiastics of whom it is written in this Second Chapter, " which 
say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." 

" I will give every one of you according to your works." It is 
not enough to express Wisdom and know the right ; it is not enough 
to express Love and feel religiously and righteously disposed ; for if 
the Power, the works, are wanting, if Woman Suffrage, the Scientific 
Tax, the Recall and so on, are omitted, the " church," the avenue of 
improvement, is incomplete and its candlestick will be removed 
from civilization. 

Chapter III — The "Church in Sardis " undoubtedly stands for 
citizenship. " Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead." Hav- 
ing the machinery of suffrage, with all its instruments and tool of con- 
venience and accuracy, the voters are too indolent to make use of 
their advantages, but drift along on other people's efforts and 
attainments. This church is admonished to "be watchful and 
strengthen the things which remain." It is encouraged to overcome 
its parasitism by the promise that " He that overcometh, the same 
shall be clothed in white (his mind shall remain pure), and I shall 
not blot his name out of the book of life (for disuse is a sure herald 
of death), but I shall confess thy name before my father and before 
his angels (for use insures growth, which is another name for life and 
creation, indicated by the word " father "). 

The " Church in Philadelphia " explains itself. Brotherly 
love, the social compact and co-operation, which are opposed to 
rule by force, work the miracle of progress that men could not per- 
form, each working by himself. " Behold, I have set before thee an 
open door, and no man can shut it, for thou hast a little strength," 
and it shall be greater as more people co-operate more harmoniously. 
" I will keep thee from temptation (special privileges such as land- 
lordism and grafts). He that overcometh I shall make a pillar in 
the temple of my God (that institution which annihilates the dis- 
advantages under which the masses suffer, shall be a pillar of civili- 
zation). And he shall go no more out, and I shall write upon him the 
name of my God and the name of the City of my God, which is the New 
Jerusalem which cometh down out of Heaven from my God." 

It must be remembered that, according to Spiritual Science, 
" God " is the title of Wisdom, Love and Power ; and " heaven " is 



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the name of its perfect processes of knowing, feeling and doing. The 
New Jerusalem is the City that will be governed by the Love that 
comes from Wisdom and the Power that comes from Love ; and 
always will Wisdom direct and Love impell ; and always will there 
be effective administration from such mandates and from such 
impulsions. 

The " Church of the Laodiceans " stands for conventional 
respectability, or the " class " that segregates itself from the " mass," 
because of some fancied superiority, whether of physicality, finance, 
birth, parentage, sex, color, intelligence or education. This " church" 
is neither good nor bad, neither hot nor cold. It takes itself so 
seriously, but is so insignificant. It is inflated with its own impor- 
tance, but really has so little weight. Its picayune inanities suffice 
it so completely that it considers itself rich, needing nothing from 
associations, whether in religion, politics, amusements or edification ; 
but the fact is, it is very poor and limited, lacking everything that is 
worth while or the opposite. It is a negation ; it lacks evil, but 
possesses no good. " So because thou art lukewarm, neither hot 
nor cold, therefore will I spew thee out of my mouth." Because 
it is neither good nor bad but thinks so highly of itself, it will be 
discarded. 

Chapter II 

Chapter IV — "A door was opened in heaven." In our common 
parlance, an open door means an opportunity ; but the door open in 
heaven, which means spirituality, ideality, is the opportunity to 
establish an ideal prototype as a practical measure on earth. 

The Political Scientists, understanding thoroughly the potency 
of the Scientific Tax, need not be on the Isle of Patmos to know some 
of the " Things which must be hereafter." We, too, see a " man 
sitting on a throne," that is, master and ruler of himself; but our 
man is a woman also who is master of herself, owing no homage or 
obedience to any man, whether father, husband or male legislators. 
We, too, see a rainbow about the throne, for we know that to him 
that hath shall be given, and that the more a man has the more he 
wants, expects, demands and hopes for. 

The twenty-four elders clothed in white, with crowns of gold, 
represent public officials, such as commissioners, for " Government 
by Commission " will be an established institution. They are 
represented as paying profound homage to the public will. Their 
white raiment signifies their honesty and incorruptibility. Prefer- 
ential voting, open primaries, initiative, referendum, etc. will work 
that miracle with public officials. 



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" The voice of the people is the voice of God," and such were 
the " thunderings and lightnings and voices " which proceeded out 
of the throne. The seven lamps indicate seven different kinds of 
mental power. The four beasts, with six wings apiece and eyes 
innumerable before, behind, within and without, are the four modes 
of public service, such as transportation, communication, recreation 
and edification. These public servitors are keenly alive to the fact 
that the people are the creator and sustainer of the service, and hence 
full homage is due to it, and not that the people pay homage to the 
servitors and officials. 

The sea of glass before the throne signifies that government — 
the Social Compact — instead of being complex, complicated, obscure, 
turbulent, unstable and shifting, will be clear, transparent, simple 
and easy, and fixed on a firm and true basis. " We move from the 
complex to the simple, and the last thing apprehended is the most 
obvious." 

Chapter V — The man on the throne, the self-governing people, 
held a book closed with seven seals. An angel — a progressive impulse 
— asked who would open the seals, solve the social problems of the day. 
" And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is 
worthy to open the book, and loose the seals thereof? " But it 
seemed difficult to find any one. 

At last there appeared the " Lion of the Tribe of Judah," after- 
wards referred to as the " Lamb slain from the foundation of the 
world." " Behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, hath prevailed to 
open the book, and loose the seven seals thereof." This is the 
Scientific Tax commonly spoken of as the Single Tax, for its methods 
are mild and peaceable, which qualities are typified by the Lamb, 
but its force is great, strong and effective, which qualities have for 
their symbol, the Lion. 

That the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world is 
also a type that is true to the facts, inasmuch as that the Scientific 
Tax, the Single-Tax principles, have always been contemptuously 
violated. 

This Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes. As stated before, 
the number seven is the type of perfection and completeness. Horns, 
like halos, stand for holiness. The seven eyes, of course, mean 
cognition, circumspection, perception, penetration and foresight. 

" And they sang a new song saying, Thou art worthy to take 
the book, and to open the seals thereof ***** And hast made us 
unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth." 



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The Scientific Tax, the lamb slain from the foundation of the 
world, is altogether worthy and capable of solving the riddle of the 
ages. It is holy, just and true, and will make us " kings and priests ; 
and we shall reign on the earth " by it. 

And the " thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of 
thousands " shall all acknowledge the reign and rule of the people, 
excluding none, neither for the reason of sex nor race, nor nation, 
but will say " blessings and honor and glory and power be to him 
that sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb forever and forever." 

Chapter VI— To begin with, the Single Tax, the Scientific Tax, 
wrestles with the problem of war, or, as stated in the Sixth Chapter of 
Revelations : "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals * * * * 
and behold a white horse : And he that sat on him had a bow * * * * 
and he went forth conquering and to conquer." 

Whatever be the excuse or pretense, war is always for the 
acquisition of land ; it is only for the acquisition of land ; and it is 
for nothing but the acquisition of land. 

As the Scientific Tax will abolish all benefit in merely owning 
land, but will force such benefits as are derived from the use of land 
to accrue to the user, men will be compelled to relinquish possession 
of all such lands as are not immediately employed. This process 
will open up vast areas of land to be acquired merely by the using, 
thus exterminating the organized strife and bloodshed for the pos- 
session of that to which there is a cordial welcome. 

The next problem to be solved by the application of the Scientific 
Tax is illustrated by the opening of the second seal by the Lamb ; 
whereupon a man on a red horse appeared " and power was given 
him to take peace from the earth." This represents the problem of 
the strikes and lockouts that the Lamb or the Scientific Tax can 
solve. When the rent of land is paid to the community instead of 
to the landlord, land will be seeking labor, instead of labor seeking 
employment, and wages will be high and rents will be low. The 
whole cause of strikes is scarcity of land ; and the whole cause of 
lockouts is a horde of unemployed laborers. With the municipal 
absorption of ground rent, land is easily acquired by labor, making 
strikes superfluous and lockouts ineffectual. 

When the lamb opened the third seal, a man on a black horse 
appeared, but the man had a " pair of balances in his hand and I 
heard a voice * * * * say, A measure of wheat for a penny and three 
measures of barley for a penny ; and see thou hurt not the oil and 



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the wine." Fair, honest and beneficial trade and commerce and all 
business relations are represented by the pair of balances. Child 
labor will be abolished. Manufacture, industry, and commerce will 
go on without harm and injury to man's higher motives as imaged 
by the wine, and without the friction of strikes and lockouts as 
pictured by the oil. 

The fourth seal broken, produced a pale horse, and death sat on 
it and hell followed them, and they had power over the fourth part 
of the earth to kill and destroy. 

The Scientific Tax can solve that problem which makes one- 
fourth of the vocations and the pursuit thereof dangerous to life and 
health. Factory work, railroading, mining, etc. are unnecessarily 
hazardous. So is domestic work. Cook-stoves are more antago- 
nistic to babies than are votes. But the Scientific Tax will expose 
the evils of our times, even the domestic ones, and will abolish them. 

When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, there appeared " the 
souls of them that were slain for the word of God and the testimony 
which they held." 

As remote as the connection may seem to the superficial between 
free land and free speech, it is very obvious to the scientist on 
Political Economy. All efforts to free ourselves from the obnoxious 
Comstock rule and the rule of any little postal official who, in his 
ignorance, arbitrarily chooses to pronounce a piece of literature 
obscene, will be vain until we are also free economically. In the 
days of the rule of the Scientific Tax, an honest conviction freely 
expressed (the Word of God and His testimony) will be honored 
instead of condemned. Religion, sex and government will be frankly 
discussed and written about. Our aim will be to teach children, 
women and men truths instead of exerting ourselves to hide the 
vital facts of life from them. 

The people well grounded in Political Science and with the 
Scientific Tax as a weapon, having established free speech and free 
press, will now wrestle with the sixth problem. This is the kings 
and priests of religion, medicine, science, art and commerce, and they 
will pass away; they will say " to the mountains and rocks, Fall on 
us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and 
from the wrath of the Lamb ; for the great day of wrath is come ; and 
who shall be able to stand? " 



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With the establishment of free speech and free press, there will 
no longer be a monopoly of the avenues of expression ; and free dis- 
cussion will bring out all truth — physical, psychical, political, financial, 
social and sociological. Medical and religious quacks will find no 
dupes where education is universal, free and agreeable. Political 
bossing will be impossible where nominations come directly from 
the voters, where legislation begins with them and is constantly 
referred to them, and where the recall can immediately displace an 
offensive official or law. Social supremacy can not exist where all are 
equally rich and cultured. The specialists of the different arts and 
sciences will assume no airs of superiority where specialties of one or 
another kind are adopted by each citizen. There will be no one to 
say to another, " Know the Lord ; for all shall know Him from the 
least unto the greatest. " 

All the priests and kings of the earth of whatever vocation shall 
have vanished, for there will be no demand and no place and no 
following for them. 

He " that sitteth on the throne, " the ruling peoples of the earth, 
by the aid of Scientific Tax (the "Lamb") and all it implies will 
abolish every king and every priest of every monopoly and despotism, 
for the peoples themselves, being the ruling power, will not be the 
followers or subjects of any leader or boss. 

Chapter VII — This chapter describes and represents the oppor- 
tunities, comforts and attainments that will be accorded to all the 
inhabitants of all the continents, of whatever nationality, occupation, 
religion or sex. It will include old-age pensions with honor and defer- 
ence and comforts and luxuries. Eugenics will receive careful atten- 
tion ; the kindergarten system of teaching with play and amusement 
will be extended throughout the period of tuition ; open-air schools 
will be the rule instead of the exception ; all labor unto the smallest 
detail will be performed by machinery. Heating, lighting, transpor- 
tation and communication of the best and most improved and 
efficient quality will freely be at the disposal of all, from the greatest 
to the least. Not only the health but also the wealth, happiness and 
freedom of the community, will be of vital consideration and interest 
to the civic authorities. Palaces built and controlled by the public 
for public entertainment and edification will be situated at convenient 
intervals and in convenient places. Experts on every conceivable 
subject, from baby-tending to astronomy, will be hired by the public 
for the information and instruction of the public, at no expense and 
little trouble to the inquirer. All the streets will be midways to parks, 



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and all dwellings will be mansions in the midst of the parks. And every 
object and instrument of use will be a thing of beauty and harmony. 

Chapter III 

Chapter VIII — "And when he (the Lamb) had opened the seventh 
seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." 
Well may there be a great silence ; for all the old errors are disposed 
of, and a new order is to be ushered in. 

" Angel," as has been said before, is an impulse to progress, an 
inspiration, an evolutionary movement. 

In this Eighth Chapter we find seven angels standing before 
the throne of God, or at the service of the almighty people. Trump- 
ets were given to them. " And the seven angels prepared them- 
selves to sound (the arrival of the new order), and the first angel 
sounded and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and a 
third part of the trees were burned up and all the green grass was 
burned up." The mystery of the elements will be solved, and man 
will have control over and give direction to rain and hail and bliz- 
zards and windstorms. 

" And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain 
with fire was cast into the sea." With the second problem great 
engineering feats will be accomplished. Geography will be changed 
to suit man's convenience ; and the forces of earthquakes and vol- 
canic eruptions will be used therefor. 

" And the third angel sounded and there fell a great star from 
heaven burning like a lamp. And it fell upon a third part of the 
rivers and fountains and waters." From the use of the word " Star 
Chamber," I take this star to mean a committee appointed for the 
purpose of investigating into the conditions of the waters for the 
consumption of humanity, changing their chemical constituents 
where necessary. 

" And the fourth angel sounded and a third part of the sun was 
smitten and a third part of the moon and a third part of the stars." 

The heat and light of the sun and the electricity and other 
forces of nature, even to the revolutions of the earth about its axis 
and around the sun, are to be harnessed for the use of man. These 
mighty engines of power are to totally supplant manual labor. * 

Chapter XI — And the fifth angel sounded and another star fell 
from heaven. It was another committee appointed by the omnipotent 



*Lord Lytton, in The Coming Age, prophesied that a two-hour labor day would be sufficient 
to perform all the multitudinous behests of a highly civilized society. 



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people. It was the committee on mining, for " to him was given the 
key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit ; and there 
arose a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace ; and the 
sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit." 

This is a prophecy that even the internal fires of the earth will 
be used by man, and that the noxious vapors will, by a perfect 
system of ventilation and by some chemicalizations of combinations 
or disintegrations, be drawn off so that they will do no harm. But 
it is intended that even these vapors should be useful and not merely 
harmless. Therefore, the smoke was turned into fantastic locusts 
to torment certain selected individuals. The geniuses, inventors 
and discoverers of the future will find some wonderful uses for the 
escaping vapors. 

The immense hordes of grotesque locusts had a king, called in 
Hebrew Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon. Both names mean 
Bottomless Pit. The whole figure indicates that these enormous 
forces, now slumbering beneath the surface of the earth, will be 
called forth by man and made to serve him. 

The sixth angel sounded and a voice said, " Loosen the four 
angels which are bound to the great river Euphrates." 

The great river stands for rivers in general ; but most especially 
that great river in midocean known as the Gulf Stream, which, even 
now, in its natural way unaided by Science, warms up the cold 
regions and cools off the hot and dry ones. The future has for this 
river four separate and distinct utilities : irrigation, including arti- 
ficial rain ; recreation, with all its lavatory possibilities ; street and 
house-cleaning ; and street and house temperature, including cooling, 
heating, moistening and drying, as the case requires. 

Chapter X — Let it not be forgotten that that " angel " is an evo- 
lutionary movement. And the mighty angel comes down from heaven 
clothed with a cloud (mystery, religion, occultism, mind power), with a 
rainbow on its head (the intelligence crowned with hope), his face 
like the sun (radiant, inspired and capable, or, as expressed in 
Spiritual Science, reflecting Wisdom, Love, and Power). " He set 
his right foot on the sea, and his left foot upon the earth." This is 
a prophecy that the powers of the mind and soul shall be consciously 
used for the general and universal benefit — that is, sociologically. 

Heretofore, the Science of Mind has been understood by only a 
few selected individuals, of whom it is written, " many are called, 
but few are chosen " ; and the use of the powers of thought has been 
restricted to them. 

The churches in their litanies, prayers, rites and rituals, though 



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operating together and in an exalted state of mind, are only dimly- 
conscious of the enormous increase in their spiritual powers because 
they are joined together in the same thought and purpose. Though 
they feel ardently their united power, they do not know as a scientific 
fact that in co-operation they have magnified their potency in sur- 
passing measure. 

When Spiritual Science is more generally apprehended, and 
when its great and now unrealized power is used communally for 
sociologic purposes, then will the Millennium be at hand, then will 
the prophecy described in Revelations, Chapter Twenty-one, be 
fulfilled. 

For the present, humanity is too ignorant and too careless to 
consciously and properly use those mighty energies of the mind 
generated collectively. But even when occultism is of general and 
common knowledge and use, it can have no visible form, because of 
its essentially mental and spiritual nature ; therefore, we read in 
this chapter that a voice from heaven said, " Seal up those things 
which the seven thunders uttered and write them not." 

Chapter XI — Those who have faithfully and intelligently studied 
their Political Science know that, unpreventably with each improve- 
ment, land values rise more or less according to the greater or lesser 
improvement. 

In the preceding chapters of Revelations, we have had related 
to us the annihilation, through the Scientific Tax, of all the errors 
from which the present civilization suffers ; and also about the 
wonderful manner in which the forces of Nature and of man are to 
be utilized in new and marvelous ways. 

With such changes and improvements it is evident and inevi- 
table that the land values must rise phenomenally and almost 
incalculably. Nevertheless, the value must most imperatively be 
calculated so as to be appropriated for the public good ; this value 
must again and again, with each step forward, with each improvement, 
with each rise in value, be taken for greater, finer, more magnificent 
public uses, for the following very important reason : 

If the smallest amount of the public fund is allowed to leak out 
and escape into private pockets, the whole civic structure of honest 
and beneficial administration laboriously built up, is in danger of 
demolition. Hence the figure in the Eleventh Chapter of Reve- 
lations : " Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and 
them that worship therein. But the court which is without the 
temple leave out ; for it is given unto the Gentiles : and the holy city 
shall they tread under foot * * * * And I will give power unto my 



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two witnesses, and they shall prophesy. * * * * These are the two 
olive-trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the 
earth. * * * * And when they shall have finished their testimony, the 
beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against 
them, and shall overcome them, and kill them." 

The beast ascending from the bottomless pit here described, 
represents the power coming from the unearned increment in land 
values, created by the increase in population and the improvements 
in their standard of living, their education, culture, refinement, 
harmonious co-operation, their labor-saving machinery and their 
fuller utilization of Nature's forces. This beast comes from the 
public fund that should be used for public purposes, which, if it is 
not so used, insidiously accrues to some individual, who thereby gets 
a privilege and advantage beyond his fellows and obtains a power 
which can not but be misused. C. This power is the beast, and it 
ascends from the bottomless pit, the ever-increasing increment in 
land value, which if not publicly used becomes a menace. 

The first and worst evil would be that the two witnesses, free 
speech and free press, would be destroyed because of the testimony 
against privilege which they give. The outer court given over to 
the Gentiles means that part of the unearned increment that was 
negligently left out of the calculation and was therefore appropriated 
by an individual for private use. 

Chapter IV 

Chapter XII — Those who can not distinguish between the two 
separate and distinct vocations of housekeeping, and childbearing and 
rearing of children, will not be able to understand John's vision 
related in the twelfth Chapter. 

" And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman 
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her 
head a crown of twelve stars : and she being with child cried, travail- 
ing in birth, and pained to be delivered." 

The great wonder that appeared in heaven is — the expectant 
mother. 

No doubt, through the ages we have sentimentally descanted, 
in song, poetry, literature and oratory, upon the beauty, power and 
glory of motherhood. But the mother herself, the personal human 
being who travailed in pain, has up to the very present, been brutally 
neglected, if not even brutally misused. She obtained no emolu- 
ments, no honors, no parades, no military salutes. No flags ever 
waved for her, no public fetes were ever given to her, and she never 



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received a medal or a decoration. Therefore, there is no occasion 
for wonderment that it is generally unknown that motherhood 
consists of something infinitely vastly higher, vastly infinitely dif- 
ferent from the sphere allotted by common consent and common 
ignorance to the mother. 

There is a horrible unspeakable desecration of motherhood in 
shackling the expectant mother to the dreary drudgery of the house- 
hold of her child, and subjecting her to the tyrannical whims of the 
father of her child, telling her she fulfils her whole destiny in being a 
patient drudge, cheerful victim and tender nurse. 

The very ignorance of humanity as to the exaltation necessary 
to the personal mother ; the very obtuseness in seeing nothing 
incongruous in a mother economically dependent on the father of 
her child ; or else, for the sake of a meager living, engaging in some 
labor unfit for a beast of burden, so much less for a woman and least 
of all for an expectant mother ; the very crime of keeping that mother 
in legal subjection, financial dependence, and domestic limitation ; 
whereas the spiritually orphaned victims of the white-slave trade 
and similar practises ; the thousand times ten thousand child martyrs 
of the factories, mines and other interests, industries and occupations ; 
the million sacrificial offerings to poverty and crime, are weeping, 
moaning, crying, beseeching and praying for woman's sanctified, 
tender but strong, true but loving mediation, intervention and 
adjustment ; the very atrocity of humanity in its attitude toward the 
woman, the mother of the race, is the second wonder described in 
Revelations xii : 3, 4. 

" And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold 
a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven 
crowns upon his heads. * * * * And the dragon stood before the woman 
which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it 
was born." 

With conditions as we find them now under land monopoly and 
all its attendant iniquitous institutions, every mother, of whatever 
station in life, looks with horror upon that great red dragon that is 
ready at any time to devour her child as it has those countless others 
through the countless ages. 

A man consoles himself for the death and destruction of his and 
his brother's children with that misused aphorism of the " survival 
of the fittest." Not so the woman, the mother of the race. With 
keener insight and truer perception, she knows that the pitfalls 
deliberately set for her girl children, and the evil -associations habit 
negligently permitted to her boy children, could easily be removed 
by a little favorable legislation. 



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Think of it ! This woman clothed with the sun of spiritual 
pot ency, with the moon of material drudgery, lying vanquished under 
her feet, crowned with the twelve stars of twelve diverse, extraordi- 
nary, sublime capacities, to be dragged from her heaven of supremacy 
and dominance and be subservient to and servitor of some one lonely 
man, catering to the caprices of some one lonely man. her enormous 
spiritual powers utilized for the material cares of some one lonely 
man's home, convenience and children ; in the meantime the rest of 
the great and promising world languishing for her help, and perishing 
because lacking her assistance. 

This is a wonder, and a wonder of a horrible nature. He who 
can see nothing horrible, repellent, revolting and loathsome in that 
condition is so blind because he can not see himself, for he is part and 
parcel of the great red dragon, the serpent, who persecutes the woman 
with child, and in his wrath makes war upon her and would " carry 
her away in the flood that comes out of his mouth." 

Men in battling with each other use weapons of war destructive 
to life and limb ; but in dealing with women, their obstructional, 
oppositional weapon is the mouth and pen from which proceed the 
oratorical flood which would have carried her away but that she 
" fled into the wilderness where she hath a place prepared of God." 
The throne of God, here as elsewhere referred to. is the rule of the 
enfranchised people. The child was caught up to the throne of 
God. As the public schools give all children their education ; as the 
public parks should give all children their recreation ; so, under the 
rule of Political Science and the Scientific Tax. will the people take 
full and expert charge of the child as soon as and even before it shall 
be born. 

No more shall the child be the helpless victim of the criminal 
greed and rapacity of private monopolies, trusts and controlling 
corporations. Child labor shall be wiped out of existence forever- 
more. Overworked, starved, insufficiently clad, badly-housed chil- 
dren will never again be known, for the community composed of 
feminine as well as masculine voters will supervise their rearing, and 
will tolerate nothing but the best that labor can produce from the 
land for the coming generation, the citizens that shall succeed them 
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